Moonlights! (semi-DIY . cheap! . fabulous results!)

Tom619

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found this at walmart for $8 in the car department. you can angle each light.



found this cigarette adapter at the 99cent store next door ..............for uh..... 99cents.
it looks like something walmart should carry too, but i found it at 99c first!

















Results? VOILA!!!!! it was one of the strongest moonlights i ever had! GLOWING!!
- Now the tank is just as a show at night as in the daytime. I angled them at the frogspawns and other luminescent corals.
- Makes the greens greener, blues bluer, and oranges... orangier. it's not just a flat blue w/ other moonlights.
- my orange monti caps glows a very strong tangerine color, but my cheapo camera couldn't get a justifiable picture (looks like a good-lookin ric).








...blows this P.O.S. away (which was already installed b4 adding the new lights). it was sooo weaaak compared to the walmart light.
(on sale on Dr.F&S for $15/unit + $11 link + $9s/h)












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it comes with a flat platform with double-sided tape. i have a small 30g so i just mounted that thing how it come. once i got the angle of each light to shine the area i want, i hot-glued it's ball valve so that it wouldn't shift.

but if your tank is bigger, you could spread the lights and hot-glue them seperately or something.

How did you mount them ? Pics please ! :D
 
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so each led produces a spot like effect? Weird ive seen people complain that the current usa moonlights are too bright.
 
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mine was 3. i've seen similar ones on ebay that come with 4 led's for $7. not sure if it's the same quality though
sure is bright, i have it aimed across the top of a 7ft tank and it provides enough brightness & shadows for it to look natural.
 

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they are 12V lights, just need to get a transformer
any Wall (120Vac) to any dc (aka the lamps) uses solid-state rectification for the power adaptation. Transformers tend to me far to electrically noisy and heavy (as well) dangerous if used wrong. Sorry for the slight lesson, helped my headache...
 

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